BY MICHAEL RICONDA WEST NYACK – Only a month after a skunk tested positive for rabies in West Nyack, another two animals were found to have been infected in the same area. Two raccoons were discovered to have rabies in the area around Van Houten Fields in West Nyack. The incident is the third such […]
Sheriff urges residents to remain vigilant in response to Mall of America threat BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – With fear mounting following terror threats against Minnesota’s Mall of America, the Lower Hudson Valley has been on alert for potential threats of their own. However, while law enforcement personnel remain vigilant toward both larger terror […]
FROM CPD At approximately 7:20 p.m. the Clarkstown Police Department responded to a two car motor vehicle accident on Rt. 9W just south of Rt. 304 in Congers. Responding patrol units observed a 2009 Toyota Corolla had collided with a 2006 New York State Department Of Transportation snow plow. The Toyota had extensive front end […]
From Ramapo PD On February 19, 2015 at approximately 6:23 a.m. the Ramapo Police Department responded to 7 Beckett Court in the Village of Chestnut Ridge for the report of residents in the household suffering symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. Upon arrival by the responding officer, it was discovered that nine individuals in the home […]
WEST NYACK – A man was arrested on Friday on suspicion of trying to pass forged items to make a purchase at the Palisades Center Mall. Hans Themistode, 24, of Brooklyn, was arrested at the mall after he was caught with 11 fraudulent credit cards. Themistode was also allegedly carrying a fraudulent Rhode Island driver’s […]
A train carrying crude oil down a CSX rail line in West Virginia derailed near Mount Carbon on Monday, burning well into Wednesday. The 109 car train, which was carrying more than 3 million gallons of fuel from North Dakota’s shale fields, ran off the tracks during a snowstorm, carrying 19 tanker cars with it. […]